Animation industry in the United States
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Visual effects, Computer animation |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | John Hughes, Mandeep Singh, and Walt Jones |
| Headquarters | United States, Malaysia, India, China, Canada.[1] |
| Services | Visual effects, Computer animation |
| Website | taufilms.com |
Tau Films is an American visual effects and animation company with locations in the United States, Malaysia, India, China, and Canada.
Tau Films was founded in 2014 by John Hughes,[2] Mandeep Singh,[3] and Walt Jones.[1][4] In 2015, it was nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project at the 13th Visual Effects Society Awards for its work on the amusement park special venue-ride film The Lost Temple (Movie Park Germany).[5][6] It has since produced other special venue-ride films such as The Forbidden Caves (Bobbejaanland)[7] and Racing Legends at Ferrari Land (PortAventura World:Ferrari Land).[8] It also created Delusion: Lies Within (virtual reality episodic storytelling).[9] Tau has worked on films such as Evil Nature (2018),[10] Baahubali: The Beginning (2015),[11][12][13][14][15] 2.0 (2018),[16][17] Crazy Alien (2019),[18][19] the 2019 Nicolas Cage film Primal,[20][21] Simon West's Skyfire (2019),[22] and Li Weiran's The Yinyang Master (2021).[23][24]
